6.2-RELEASE-p6 panic on boot

[CyberLeo Kitsana]

Tamouh H. wrote:
> The first thing I'd try is boot direct to the drive, without the RAID card. It seems from the dump it paniced after loading the 3ware drivers:
> 
> "RocketRAID 232x controller driver v1.02 (Jul 16 2007 17:38:56)
> panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory
> cpuid = 0
> KDB: enter: panic
> [thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
> Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x2b"
> 
> This would especially be true if the RAID Array is degraded or failed. But try it with the drives directly connected to the board.
> 
> Tamouh

Good idea.

Unfortunately, the drives are SATA, and the board only natively supports
PATA. The RAID card is the only SATA card I have, as well.

The machine has had no problems booting 6.2-RELEASE in the past, off
other installs, however.

Thanks!

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